The Lethbridge Glider Club's Primary No. 2 Glider

Scope and Content: View of W.P. 'Stevie' Stevens over Lethbridge in the Lethbridge Glider Club's Primary No. 2 Glider. The fabric on the fuselage is from the unsuccessful Northrup glider.

History Biographical: W.P. 'Stevie' Stevens was a private pilot who learned to fly gliders with the Calgary Gliding Club. A collector for Industrial Acceptance Corporation Limited (IAC) in southern Alberta. Stevens' home was in Calgary but he found Lethbridge a convenient base for his work. He visited the Club as often as possible. [Source: “The Lethbridge Glider Club 1929-1939 Also Known as the Prairie Gliders and The Skid Busters”, by Bruce W. Gowans. 1981] The photograph was used in "Flight", June 11, 1936 (page 622). The caption is the following "From an airy perch in a primary sailplane, Mr. W. P. Stevens, a Canadian reader, took his photograph of himself with the aid of a camera on the wing-tip and a length of cotton. The photograph was taken 800ft. over the city of Lethbridge, Alberta, a district abounding in "thermals" of a kind to delight the soaring pilot."

Scope and Content: View of W.P. 'Stevie' Stevens over Lethbridge in the Lethbridge Glider Club's Primary No. 2 Glider. The fabric on the fuselage is from the unsuccessful Northrup glider.

Notes: This photograph was removed from its album as a conservation measure.